Yes, this hack would really work out well on our boards.. too bad it's not done for vB 3 yet.. any ideas when/if it will be done for vB3??

no you wont hobbies :P


nice idea :) at our site i think we need more members, if i hadnt just upgraded to vb3 i might use this :)

still wondering :(

I've been lazy. I apologise.

I left it wallow in Beta as no bugs have been found.

I'll polish it this week and release it as soon as I can.

I won't include an admin option to view who has voted though. I have no doubt some of you want this, but I value the trust of my users very highly and respect their confidentiality.

If you want such a thing for specific cases, then you can just take a peek at the database table 'secret_admirer'... it's very easy to figure out. But it's not my style to have things like this, or the PM reader hack*, etc.

Cheers

David K

* I actually go one further and obfuscate the storage of PMs on my site to assure the users that private means private.

Screenies will follow when it goes Gold... which will only be a week or so :)

buro9: Very nice! We have a message board of 17000 posts/week and we will definitely give this a shot if you can get this to final release. I think it will be popular and a fun thing to build sense of community.

I agree with your thoughts of keeping the information secret from administrators. Besides privacy (which is a good enough reason by itself) think about it this way: how many administrators would want people bombarding them begging for hints or clues? ;)

Just done most of the updates... refreshed the zip file for you all... it should now be ready for gold... I'll set about getting some screenshots for you all.

BTW... the bombarding admins and mods is a very valid point... they do do this, and it was only my continual assurance that I couldn't and wouldn't tell them anything that got them off my back.

You can see this all in action over at http://www.bowlie.com/forum/

Cheers

David K

Just thought I'd re-iterate... as regards VB3... I've designed this mod to be VERY portable.

All of the code is pretty much in one file... and only a small slice of logic will need to be ported.

As soon as I have VB3 running I will port this mod to it... because obviously I need it too!!!!

Screen shots are now in the zip file too... 6 of them I think... they show all of the additions, etc.

They don't quite do the system justice though, I have over 2,000 rows in the database table... it's proving very effective :)

Thanks for this hack, i love it and so will my users.

How do you obfuscate the storage of PMs? I'd like to do that also.